Type Of Business:
Leading Provider of Metrology and Process Equipment Solutions Used by Manufacturers in the Data Storage and Semiconductors Industries
Expertise:
Analog Circuits including Data Acquisition with High Accuracy and Low-Noise Multi-Channel Scanning, Robotic Control Systems for the Hard Drive Industry, Mechanical Design Concepts including Precision Servo Control, Steel Flexure Design Concepts for Precision Motion Control, Optics and Magnetic Actuators
Major Product/SVS:
Metrology, Process Equipment, Design and Development of Precision Lapping Machinery for Processing the Read/Write Heads for the Hard Drive Industry, and Precision Robotic Saws for Dicing Semiconductor Wafers and Wafers of Heads for Hard Drives
Favorite Business Publication:
EETimes; Motion Systems Design
Hobbies/Sports:
Home Electronics, Amateur Radio, Motor Boating on Lake George, New York
Education Degrees:
High School Education; Logic Design Coursework, RCA (1966); Attended Several Seminars for Hard Drive Recording Technology and Perpendicular Recording Development
Affiliations Awards:
The Gideons International, Member ince 1973, Served in all Offices
Industry:
Digital Media and Electronics
Work History:
Sixty Four Years of Industry Experience including Eight Years of Experience Operating Heavy Road-Building Machinery; Electronic Design; Television Broadcasting Engineer; Electronic System Design including Many Years Developing Military Radar Power Supply Systems; Most of the Radar System Power Supplies I Developed from 1970-1991 are Currently in Use and Some are Still in Production. Details: Starting in January 1948 Operating Heavy Road Machinery and Studying Electronics. Started at Sperry Gyroscope as an Electronic Technician from 1956-1958. Worked as a Television Transmitter Engineer from 1958-1967. Simultaneously Started Working at Espey Manufacturing in Saratoga Springs, New York from 1959-1991, Finishing as an Electronics Design Manager. Later Joined Aii, which was Merged into Veeco in 2003. I Never had to Go Looking for a Job.
Career Achievements:
At Espey, I Developed a Variety of Custom High-Performance Power Supply Systems including Battery-Backed Power Systems for the Titan Long-Range Missile Launch Sites. I also Designed Radar Power Supplies with Extensive Data Acquisition Systems for Marine, Aircraft, and Ground-Based Radar Systems. At Aii (Later Veeco), I Developed Electronics including Data Acquisition and the Mechanical Design Concepts for Robotic Machines for the Hard-Drive Industries for the Major Manufacturers of Hard Drives. One Machine I Developed in 1993 is Still in Production and over 900 were Sold More than Twice as many as any other Lapping Machine ever Designed.